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Fringe returns for its 5th and Final Season! If you plan to watch Episode 1: Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11 with the rest of us Fringies the night it airs, make sure to mark yourself "yes" as going and share this G+ event with a friend.
Watch Season 4's Episode 19 "Letters of Transit" here: http://www.fox.com/fringe/full-episodes/14534589/letters-of-transit
On the Season Premiere Episode of #FRINGE ...
The fifth and final season picks up from the ominous events of last season’s “Letters of Transit” episode, in which the year is 2036 and the overpowering Observers rule. The Fringe team – preserved in amber for 20 years - is now a rebel resistance team fighting for freedom. Peter, reunited with his now adult daughter, Etta, sets out to find out what happened to his wife and Etta’s mom – Olivia – as they start their mission to save the world from the Observers.

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LEGO Game of Thrones - The Titan of Bravos - http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/412666

Here's a cool Game of Thrones inspired LEGO build by Steve M. Check out the link for some details shots and to get a better feel for the scale of this.

For those who don't follow the books or tv show, the Titan of Bravos is a huge stone and bronze statue which stands guarding the entrance to the harbor of Bravos, one of the "Free Cities" in that fantasy world. It stands as the primary line of defense for the city giving early warning of invasion.﻿

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LEGO Game of Thrones - The Titan of Bravos - http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/412666

Here's a cool Game of Thrones inspired LEGO build by Steve M. Check out the link for some details shots and to get a better feel for the scale of this.

For those who don't follow the books or tv show, the Titan of Bravos is a huge stone and bronze statue which stands guarding the entrance to the harbor of Bravos, one of the "Free Cities" in that fantasy world. It stands as the primary line of defense for the city giving early warning of invasion.﻿

Neither Bernie Sanders nor Donald Trump will be picking up their respective parties' nominations* no matter how much tv time or how many articles are written about their current poll success and "what it may mean."

What we have is a perfect example of how modern new media (on and offline) operates. Sound and fury. Signifying nothing.

This may be the only thing these two people have in common.﻿

Neither Bernie Sanders nor Donald Trump will be picking up their respective parties' nominations* no matter how much tv time or how many articles are written about their current poll success and "what it may mean."

What we have is a perfect example of how modern new media (on and offline) operates. Sound and fury. Signifying nothing.

We went to the National Geographic Museum in DC to see their Indiana Jones exhibition. It was a clever blending of props and backstage stories from the four movies with real world archaeological exhibits and information.

And at the end there was the Madam Tussaud's waxwork of Indy. A very lifelike capture I think. The photograph was challenging though because he was placed in front of a window. I angled round to help things but even so there's a clash of lighting sources. If I'd had more time I'd probably have experimented with fill flash, but this was in the middle of the gift shop..﻿

Look who we got to meet to today?

We went to the National Geographic Museum in DC to see their Indiana Jones exhibition. It was a clever blending of props and backstage stories from the four movies with real world archaeological exhibits and information.

And at the end there was the Madam Tussaud's waxwork of Indy. A very lifelike capture I think. The photograph was challenging though because he was placed in front of a window. I angled round to help things but even so there's a clash of lighting sources. If I'd had more time I'd probably have experimented with fill flash, but this was in the middle of the gift shop..﻿___

Here's another panorama from my weekend walk. This is in Harpers Ferry itself, near the banks of the Shenandoah river. On the left you can see the railway tracks and (higher up) St. Peter's Catholic Church.﻿

Here's another panorama from my weekend walk. This is in Harpers Ferry itself, near the banks of the Shenandoah river. On the left you can see the railway tracks and (higher up) St. Peter's Catholic Church.﻿___

Anyone used an HDMI to Component converter with a Roku or other streaming video box?

One of my TVs doesn't have an HDMI input (no I'm not buying a new tv at the moment so let's skip that particular discussion). Right now I'm using a WD TV box which has optical audio out along with an HDMI to DVI converter.

This works quite well but the box is no longer being updated and I'd like to be able to stream Amazon Prime and HBO as well as the Plex, Hulu Plus as Netflix options I already have.

It strikes me that a Roku is probably the most complete option for that, but they all seem to be HDMI only these days. My TV can do DVI (which no one does any more), Component and Composite (as well as audio via TOSLink).

Suggestions?﻿

Anyone used an HDMI to Component converter with a Roku or other streaming video box?

One of my TVs doesn't have an HDMI input (no I'm not buying a new tv at the moment so let's skip that particular discussion). Right now I'm using a WD TV box which has optical audio out along with an HDMI to DVI converter.

This works quite well but the box is no longer being updated and I'd like to be able to stream Amazon Prime and HBO as well as the Plex, Hulu Plus as Netflix options I already have.

It strikes me that a Roku is probably the most complete option for that, but they all seem to be HDMI only these days. My TV can do DVI (which no one does any more), Component and Composite (as well as audio via TOSLink).

This morning's walk was along the C&O Canal trail next to the Potomac near Harpers Ferry. I was using my new Peak Design Capture Camera Clip - http://amzn.to/1IRap9S - (I should do a review of that, it's great) so my camera was conveniently handy at any point on the walk and I snapped off a good number of photos.

I stitched this panorama together the old fashioned way (i.e. without Google's help) in Photoshop and then did some tweaking (Nik Color Efex filters if you're curious) to pull out some of the details in the landscape.﻿

This morning's walk was along the C&O Canal trail next to the Potomac near Harpers Ferry. I was using my new Peak Design Capture Camera Clip - http://amzn.to/1IRap9S - (I should do a review of that, it's great) so my camera was conveniently handy at any point on the walk and I snapped off a good number of photos.

I stitched this panorama together the old fashioned way (i.e. without Google's help) in Photoshop and then did some tweaking (Nik Color Efex filters if you're curious) to pull out some of the details in the landscape.﻿___

The modest goal of the latest Netflix Orig­inal Sense8 (created by the impres­sive teaming of the Wachowski’s an J. Michael Straczynski) was to rein­vent the tele­vi­sion series. So if nothing else this show is shooting for the moon and while the landing isn’t smooth, but I think they at least made orbit.

The high concept of Sense8 isn’t radi­cally different to other genre bending shows. Basi­cally you’ve got a group of 8 indi­vid­uals who are going about their lives when they are somehow gifted with the power to sense each other, talk to each other and utilize each other’s skills. There’s also an evil (I’m assuming) group lead by a sensate who are hunting down other sensates .

I’m four episodes in and that’s about all I can tell you regarding the meta­plot for this 12 episode season. Which leads me to perhaps the biggest crit­i­... more »

TV Review: Sense8 S01E01 - S01E04

The modest goal of the latest Netflix Orig­inal Sense8 (created by the impres­sive teaming of the Wachowski’s an J. Michael Straczynski) was to rein­vent the tele­vi­sion series. So if nothing else this show is shooting for the moon and while the landing isn’t smooth, but I think they at least made orbit.

The high concept of Sense8 isn’t radi­cally different to other genre bending shows. Basi­cally you’ve got a group of 8 indi­vid­uals who are going about their lives when they are somehow gifted with the power to sense each other, talk to each other and utilize each other’s skills. There’s also an evil (I’m assuming) group lead by a sensate who are hunting down other sensates .

I’m four episodes in and that’s about all I can tell you regarding the meta­plot for this 12 episode season. Which leads me to perhaps the biggest crit­i­cism of the show...﻿___

LEGO Game of Thrones - The Titan of Bravos - http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/412666

Here's a cool Game of Thrones inspired LEGO build by Steve M. Check out the link for some details shots and to get a better feel for the scale of this.

For those who don't follow the books or tv show, the Titan of Bravos is a huge stone and bronze statue which stands guarding the entrance to the harbor of Bravos, one of the "Free Cities" in that fantasy world. It stands as the primary line of defense for the city giving early warning of invasion.﻿

LEGO Game of Thrones - The Titan of Bravos - http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/412666

Here's a cool Game of Thrones inspired LEGO build by Steve M. Check out the link for some details shots and to get a better feel for the scale of this.

For those who don't follow the books or tv show, the Titan of Bravos is a huge stone and bronze statue which stands guarding the entrance to the harbor of Bravos, one of the "Free Cities" in that fantasy world. It stands as the primary line of defense for the city giving early warning of invasion.﻿___

The two photos in this album are generated from the same RAW file. But one was done automatically by Google Photos (without any input from me at all) and the other was done more intensively with Photoshop and Nik Pro filters.

Mine is better I think (extra details recovered from the highlights and the shading of his face reduce so you can see it better, a bit of sharpening plus some subtle darkening to focus your eye on the subject better), but the difference is fairly small and probably not worth it for 80% of photos.﻿

The two photos in this album are generated from the same RAW file. But one was done automatically by Google Photos (without any input from me at all) and the other was done more intensively with Photoshop and Nik Pro filters.

Mine is better I think (extra details recovered from the highlights and the shading of his face reduce so you can see it better, a bit of sharpening plus some subtle darkening to focus your eye on the subject better), but the difference is fairly small and probably not worth it for 80% of photos.﻿___

Almost stepped on this guy on my walk this morning. He was half in and half out of the grass on the path.

The Copperhead is one of only two venomous snakes in West Virginia. The key things to notice are the way the dark banding narrows (like an hourglass) on the top of the boy and the vertical pupil (like a cats eye) which locally only the Copperhead and Rattlesnake have.

The snake just lay there with its tongue out waiting for me to go away. So, after taking some photos, I did. You can just about make out the vertical pupil in one of the photos, but unfortunately it's slightly out of focus.

Incidentally these photos are direct from the camera and uploaded to Google Photos as RAW files. Google does a good job of processing them I think.﻿

Copperhead Snake

Almost stepped on this guy on my walk this morning. He was half in and half out of the grass on the path.

The Copperhead is one of only two venomous snakes in West Virginia. The key things to notice are the way the dark banding narrows (like an hourglass) on the top of the boy and the vertical pupil (like a cats eye) which locally only the Copperhead and Rattlesnake have.

The snake just lay there with its tongue out waiting for me to go away. So, after taking some photos, I did. You can just about make out the vertical pupil in one of the photos, but unfortunately it's slightly out of focus.

Incidentally these photos are direct from the camera and uploaded to Google Photos as RAW files. Google does a good job of processing them I think.﻿___